Subject: Midlothian

• TXI: Guilty. Now, Hand Over $20 Million.

  March 23, 2007

• Re: Sam Coats' Concrete Problem

  March 16, 2007

• Sam Coats' Concrete Problem

  March 16, 2007

• Summerall in Mesquite

  January 16, 2007

• Re: A Soldier Dies in Iraq on Christmas

  January 2, 2007

• No Child Left Behind

  October 11, 2006

• What, No Kenny Wayne Shepherd?

  September 20, 2006

• Raising Midlothian

  June 2, 2006

• Wonders a Downwinder: A Bad Wind A-Blowin' In From Midlothian?

  May 27, 2008

• Way Up in The Air in Their Beautiful Corporate-Sponsored Balloon

  June 22, 2008

• Kick in the Ash: Cement-Maker Takes Dallas, Tarrant Counties to Court

  The day before Thanksgiving, Kansas-based Ash Grove Cement Company filed a suit against, among others, the City of Dallas, claiming that the city's desire to go green will take the green right out of Ash Grove's wallet. The lawsuit, which also names Plano and Fort Worth and Arlington and Tarrant County and the Dallas Independent School District as defendants, is a monster -- hundreds of pages of complaints and exhibits. Ash Grove, which makes cement at its Midlothian plant using the wet-kiln met

  December 1, 2008

• Whitt's End

  Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *I got $1 for the first person who can show me - like Tony Romo did last week - any time that Terrell Owens has ever uttered the phrase: "This one's on me." Owens has every right to be jealous of Romo and Jason Witten because they're both something he's not: Humble. And likeable. *Since 2006 no NFL combo has produced more touchdowns than Owens-from-Romo. They have 33, well ahead of Plaxico Burres-f

  December 12, 2008

• Spouting rubbish

  November 30, 1995

• Companies that whore

  August 15, 1996

• Letters

  August 29, 1996

• Ill Wind Blowing

  June 12, 1997

• Something In The Air

  June 19, 1997

• Letters

  July 3, 1997

• Letters

  July 10, 1997

• Letters

  August 7, 1997

• Bottom of the ninth

  February 12, 1998

• If North Texas Really Wants to Ride the Rail, a Tax Hike's Coming Down the Road

  You may wanna spend a few minutes this morning boning up on the Rail North Texas plan, which calls for 215 miles of new commuter rail track that would connect much of North Texas -- from McKinney to Midlothian, Cleburne to Carrollton, Burleson to beyond. Only, who'll pay for it? Because it ain't cheap: $350 million and growing, by most estimates. And the suburbs badly want this, as evidenced by a press release issued by the city Burleson last week:It's been almost 80 years since the last passeng

  February 16, 2009

• Bucking Crazy

  February 25, 1999

• Letters

  April 20, 2000

• Letters

  April 5, 2001

• Sum 36

  DV8 could be the standout at the North Texas New Music Festival

  September 25, 2003

• Sexy Things|Cough, Cough

  November 13, 2008

• Green Cement Plants Could Mean Cleaner Air and Lower Costs

  Economic pressure from local cities helps clean up smoky kilns

  November 6, 2008

• Airheaded Fun

  June 12, 2008

• Tony 'n' Tina's Nuptials Take the Cake

  Also: not much to celebrate in Risk Theater's Slaughterhouse Five

  February 14, 2008

• Divide and Conquer|Disgusting Bleeding Hearts

  January 31, 2008

• Play It Again, Sammy

  Can the Rangers' oldest rookie leave his diva days behind and deliver?

  March 29, 2007

• What a VIP Off

  March 22, 2007

• Nip and Duck

  November 23, 2006

• War and Peace

  October 5, 2006

• Chief Sitting Bull

  The toughest Dallas cowboys don't wear helmets

  September 21, 2006

• Sour Grapes

  November 10, 2005

• Odds & Ends

  Fry Street Fair returns to Denton; Braidy Bingham is a teen titan; and Lizard Lounge offers reward for burglary information

  April 21, 2005

• Summer Lovin'

  It's a good day, sunshine

  June 19, 2003

• Long Live the Poison Pen

  There are two kinds of critics: those who criticize, and those who don't

  December 19, 2002

• Catch Those Tigers

  Years of little or no regulation have made Texas a place where big cats prowl--and sometimes kill

  February 28, 2002

• The Way of the Gun

  The untold story of why Lenell Geter was freed

  November 15, 2001

• O.J. Confidential

  High-profile P.I. Bill Dear believes he knows who killed Nicole Simpson. It's not who you think.

  April 12, 2001

• For a Second Year, the Sue Pope Fund Will Dole Out Grants to Folks Who Can Clear the Air

  Katy HubenerIn a small, bright room at the Center for Community Cooperation this morning, Katy Hubener, the grant coordinator for the Sue Pope Fund, officially announced $1 million available in funding for new clean air projects in North Texas. The fund was established in 2005 in honor of Sue Pope, a Midlothian rancher known for her role in the decades-long fight against air pollution emanating from TXI's cement plant-cum-hazardous waste incinerator. The story is a long and dramatic one (we told

  June 9, 2009

• Don't Want TXI to Burn Tires in Midlothian? Too Bad. TCEQ Doesn't Wanna Hear About It.

  In April, public ire rose when Texas Industries scored a 10-year air permit renewal -- no public comment period required -- for its notoriously toxic Midlothian cement operation. The renewal came with one condition: TXI's cement kilns, the only ones in North Texas authorized to burn hazardous waste, couldn't increase their emissions. But, as it turns out, TXI has applied for a permit to burn "tires and tire shreds" in one of its Midlothian kilns, which appears to be a direct violation of that pr

  June 12, 2009

• Strange and Passioniate Emissions From Yesterday's EPA Cement Kiln Hearing

  Alexa SchirtzingerIf this picture were at all legible, you'd see Deirdre Tinker testifying while dressed as a cement kilnAmong the first 60 commenters at yesterday's public hearing on proposed Environmental Protection Agency regulations intended to reduce emissions from cement kilns, there was obvious consensus on a few points: They liked the EPA's new rules. They felt they needed them, because the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), depending on whom you ask, falls somewhere betw

  June 18, 2009

• Just Why Is the EPA Considering Waste Management's Lobbyist For Dallas Director?

  Alexa SchirtzingerThis morning, in the reflection of Dallas's Fountain Place building, a small group of environmental activists gathered as previously announced to oppose the nomination of former Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission head John Hall as the new regional director of the Environmental Protection Agency. Some were outraged at Hall's past and current ties as a lobbyist for oil, gas and waste companies, but others openly shared their personal experiences with Hall -- and some,

  June 30, 2009

• Ash Grove's Determined to Force Plano, At Least, to Buy Its Midlothian-Made Cement

  ​Back in December, we mentioned that Kansas-based Ash Grove Cement Company -- which operates a cement-manufacturing plant in Midlothian -- filed a massive lawsuit against Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth and Arlington, among others, in which the company claimed that those cities' decision to purchase cleaner, "greener" cement would cost Ash Grove big business. According to court documents I just spent a little while browsing, that suit died with a whimper on March 31, when the court granted Ash Grove

  July 29, 2009

• Disney Investment Firm Says Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck Were Elected to TXI Board

  ​Last November, Walt Disney's nephew (Roy Disney) and the Disney family's investment firm (Shamrock Holdings) bought a 5.5 percent stake in Mockingbird Lane-based concrete maker Texas Industries, Inc., which, till just recently, wanted to burn tires down in Midlothian in order to fuel its kilns. (Shamrock now owns slightly more than 10 percent of the company.) Anyway, long story short: The Los Angeles Times is reporting this morning that yesterday, after TXI's annual shareholders meeting at th

  October 23, 2009

• Downwinders at Risk Hails SMU Engineering Prof's Appointment as EPA Administrator

  Al Armendariz​Al Armendariz, a research associate professor in SMU's Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering, was on National Public Radio earlier this week discussing health issues suffered by folks living near the Barnett Shale; said Armendariz of airborne toxins discovered by researchers, "the oil and gas production industry around Fort Worth is a major contributor to both local and global air pollution problems." Around the same time, the engineering professor was posting to

  November 5, 2009